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Six Against the Stars (Omnibus: Book 1 & 2) [Kindle Edition]

Stephen Hunt
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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As the self-proclaimed biggest coward in the galaxy, Horatio has it easy on what passes for 40th century America. A much-favoured sycophant in the court of the King of Earth, Horatio lives in a genetically engineered paradise where there's a vat-grown slave waiting around every marble column with a bunch of grapes to drop into his oh-so perfectly designed mouth.

Unfortunately for Horatio, the artificial intelligence that rules the great mass of humanity spread across the stars has other plans for this feckless seducer. So, if you ever wonder how the galaxy's biggest coward finds himself actually trying to save it, you're not alone... but then, unfortunately, neither is our hero!

His misadventures are abetted by a psychotic Martian warrior, a robot who thinks it's related to Sherlock Holmes, a beautiful genetically enhanced assassin, a scientist with a computer for a brain, and a millennium-old clone who was alive when the last U.S. President was executed by a firing squad.

It's six against the galaxy. Six against the stars. They'll save the universe... but they might damage it first.

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AGE ADVISORY

Age 15+ - mild violence and some scenes of sex and nudity.

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READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...

Douglas Adams
Neal Asher
Iain M. Banks
Jack Campbell
David Drake
Orson Scott Card
James S.A. Corey
Evan Currie
Peter F. Hamilton
Ric Locke
Dan Simmons
Charles Stross
David Weber

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GENRES

Science fiction (space opera)
Adventure (scifi)

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Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 722 KB
  • Print Length: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Green Nebula Publishing; 1 edition (14 July 1999)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005D3W6U6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #140,041 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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3.8 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read with good narrative 28 Sep 2012
By Jules
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I really enjoyed this book. I engaged with the characters and the story ran a a good pace. Could have done with the adventure running just a bit longer
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly worth a six star review... 10 Dec 2012
By Daniel
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Six Against the Stars is a decent sci-fi book. As usual it's set in the far future. Our current age becomes known as the Carbon age and will be followed, in this universe anyway, by the Conflict age. In this universe humans have spread amongst the stars, with the Wisdom (which absorbs all the intelligence of the universe's finest) ruling over it.

Horatio spends his time on Earth as a courtier and spends most of that time chasing after and sleeping with various women. After one such events things don't quite go to plan and he finds himself on a mission through space with a robot, a crazed religious warrior, a beautiful assassin, a doctor and an immortal soldier. It's certainly original as the six find themselves against all sorts of alien races and have a traitor somewhere amongst their midst.

My main issue with this is that the sci-fi ideas in it are not developed much and are difficult to grasp. Hunt has some fantastic ideas but there are just too many of them and they sort of cancel each other out. The alien races in it are fairly generic and it just feels like it could be changed so much better. It's an enjoyable enough read though and worth it because some of the sci-fi ideas are just fantastic.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bought 2? 8 Nov 2012
By Browny
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Why did i have to buy two books just to get second lot of stories.as with all short stories leaves you wanting more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Six Against the Stars (Omnibus: Book 1 & 2) 18 May 2012
By Levy
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Nice flow to the story, being successful in making a story interesting is hard, Stephen Hunt is 90% successful in this, found the story interesting and extremely, laugh out loud, funny in places. Interesting is important.

Out of personal preference how about a nice long space opera story with lots of alien races a few space battles and the ineffectual, possible heir to a small thrown, hero saving the universe?? as your next project :)
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